Archive for July, 2011

Stalking another salvager

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Scanning empire space is so much easier than w-space. There are only a handful of signatures at best, and most are exploited quickly enough in high-sec that those that linger will be wormholes. The system that I jump to in order to continue tonight's exploration is even easier to scan, ...

Going after gas

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Two signatures are in our mission base system today, and both are wormholes. Both connections are K162s from class 2 w-space, so I pick one at random to visit first, putting me in the same C2 as only three days ago when I nearly snagged a stealth bomber looting a ...

Just passing through

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Just as sometimes you can scan through a dozen w-space systems and find no exit to k-space, you can scan an awful lot of k-space before you find a wormhole. I like to think that the wealth of conveniently interconnected systems out in high-sec empire space offers almost infinite possibility ...

Stealth bomber, the clue is in the name

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Early scanning gets an early result, a wormhole found in our high-sec mission base system. The K162 from class 1 w-space is stable and healthy, and jumping through shows me drones but no wrecks and a couple of towers in the system. My directional scanner also has a Probe and ...

Shooting the greys

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Fin's fickle agent still snubs me. If that's the way it's going to be, I'll look for capsuleers to shoot in w-space. I take my Tengu strategic cruiser to look for wormholes in high-sec, finding nothing in the home system and a single wormhole in the next system along. Sadly, ...

Finding the right system

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Despite there being stargates all around I'm going out scanning. Having moved my covert exploration Tengu strategic cruiser to our mission base I may as well make use of it. Besides, I still can't access the agent Fin uses, although I probably ought to get more involved in running missions ...

A tale of two Tengus

Friday, July 8th, 2011

My first day back out in high-sec empire space will be simple enough. Glorious leader Fin has a level 4 agent sitting out in Caldari space somewhere who she wants to introduce me to, which will involve flying shared missions for a while, so I need to move my PvE ...

Making like a banana

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

The home system looks quiet. Intelligence puts a maximum of a couple of possible hostile pilots available to cause disruption, but none seen locally recently. My mission can go ahead, and I start scanning for an exit. The static wormhole leading to our neighbouring class 3 w-space system is easy ...

Comms are coming from inside the system

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

It turns out we're not rid of our visitors just yet. Glorious leader Fin has been ambushed by a covert Tengu strategic cruiser, catching her completely off-guard whilst checking some stale bookmarks. I wake up shortly after and disappear quickly in my own scanning boat, launching probes and cloaking away ...

Scanning goes nowhere

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

All is quiet at home, and with only one wormhole to find I jump through to our neighbouring system. My directional scanner shows me two towers in this class 3 w-space system, but no ships that would indicate signs of activity. I launch probes to perform a blanket scan of ...